Star Wars (Episode IV 1977) Genre Theory and Narrative Theory

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Star Wars, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope: Episode IV - A New Hope, (1977), Director: George Lucas, Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher, Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi. A New Hope opens with a Rebel ship being boarded by the antagonist Darth Vader. The plot then follows the life of a simple farm boy, Luke Skywalker, as he discovers the Force, and as he and his newly met allies Han Solo, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan Kenobi, C-3PO, R2-D2 attempt to rescue a Rebel leader, Princess Leia, from the clutches of the Empire, and Darth Vader. The conclusion reaches the climax as the Rebels, including Skywalker make an attack on the Empire's most powerful and advanced weapon, the Death Star. The story revolves around Skywalker learning his full potential as a Jedi and fitting with the narrative, the efforts in the path of destruction of the Death Star, and subsequently Darth Vader. When you focus on the 12 steps of a hero’s journey with, Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope, you see a long and emotional journey of an unlikely character develop into someone much more powerful and greater. According to Vogler the beginning of any 12 step hero journey is the normal world. The ordinary world is the beginning of the journey itself and this ordinary world has an unlikely to be hero of Luke Skywalker in it, who is bored with life on the remote farm where he lives with his uncle and aunt. His parents are also presumed dead and he feels unfulfilled and restless with the life he has. Suddenly there is a “Call to adventure”, and this is where something presents the hero with a problem or challenge that changes his ordinary world and Luke Skywalker being the main protagonist of this film is clearly about to
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embark upon his journey using this current challenge and the emotion it creates as a driving force for his quest. This “call to adventure” is when Luke accidentally finds Princess Leia's desperate plea for help addressed to Obi-Wan-Kinobi and stored in the droid R2D2, this is the second part of the 12 step structure, and this is when in relation to narrative Luke Skywalker is beginning to think about the meaning of the message, and this means he is curios. Then Refusal of the call is the third instalment of the twelve step plot and this is when the hero ...

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